Hoima
Hoima is a city in the Western Region of Uganda and is the main municipal, administrative, and commercial center of Hoima District. It is also the location of the palace of the Omukama of Bunyoro.- Type: City with 101,000 residents
- Description: town in Uganda
- Also known as: “Hoima City” and “Hoima, Uganda”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hoima Hospital.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mparo.
Hoima
- Category: locality
- Location: Hoima Municipality, Hoima District, Western Uganda, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
1.431° or 1° 25′ 52″ north
Longitude
31.3525° or 31° 21′ 9″ east
Population
101,000
Elevation
1,131 metres (3,711 feet)
Open location code
6GHHC9J3+92
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Hoima” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هويما”
- Bengali: “হৈমা”
- Cebuano: “Hoima”
- Chinese: “霍伊玛”
- Danish: “Hoima”
- Dutch: “Hoima”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هويما”
- Finnish: “Hoima”
- French: “Hoima”
- Fulah: “Hoima”
- Ganda: “Hoima”
- German: “Hoima”
- Greek: “Χόιμα”
- Gujarati: “હોઇમા”
- Hausa: “Hoima”
- Hindi: “होईमा”
- Indonesian: “Hoima”
- Irish: “Hoima”
- Italian: “Hoima”
- Japanese: “ホイマ”
- Kannada: “ಹೋಮಾ”
- Korean: “호이마”
- Latvian: “Hoima”
- Lithuanian: “Hoima”
- Malay: “Hoima”
- Marathi: “होहीमा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hoima”
- Polish: “Hoima”
- Portuguese: “Hoima”
- Romanian: “Hoima”
- Russian: “Хоима”
- Sinhala: “හොයිමා”
- Spanish: “Hoima”
- Swahili: “Hoima”
- Swedish: “Hoima”
- Tamil: “ஹோய்மா”
- Telugu: “హొయిమా”
- Thai: “ฮอยมา”
- Turkish: “Hoima”
- Ukrainian: “Хоіма”
- Urdu: “ہویما”
- Vietnamese: “Hoima”
- Zulu: “Hoima”
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